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Julio Villani, Lettres Brisées, 2024, Acrylique, fusain, kaolin sur toile
Courtesy RX&SLAG
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Galerie RX&SLAG

Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil, Le Tourbillon de la Vie #01, 2013, Impression Lambda contrecollée sur aluminium, 120 x 150 cm, Edition de 5 ex + 1 AP, © Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil, Courtesy de l'artiste & galerie In Situ - fabienne leclerc, Grand Paris

galerie Sator

Galerie Sabine Bayasli

Famakan Magassa 1997, Mali

"La vie est un compte"

  • Famakan Magassa, L’AMOUR ET LA JUSTICE, Acrylique et pastel à l'huile sur toile, 150 X 130 CM, 2025, copyright galerie Sabine Bayasli

Famakan Magassa, L’AMOUR ET LA JUSTICE, Acrylique et pastel à l'huile sur toile, 150 X 130 CM, 2025, copyright galerie Sabine Bayasli

“La vie est un compte”

From the Koredugas exhibition in Bamako in 2019 to the solo show “La vie est un compte” presented in Paris in 2025, six years have passed during which Famakan Magassa has demonstrated creativity and originality through his chosen themes and stylistic evolution. At just 28 years old, the young Malian painter has successfully reinvented himself and defied the passage of time without succumbing to any form of frantic productivity.

Despite having six international exhibitions, three prestigious international residencies, and being the first French-speaking artist to win the Norval Foundation’s top prize, he continues his journey with the calmness of a seasoned creator.

This relationship with the passing of time has always been a constant in Famakan Magassa’s work, even if it only appeared subtly in some paintings. It was therefore natural for him to address it directly, while constructing a narrative that embraces the events of a lifetime and offers social commentary. To achieve this, we once again formed the complementary duo that has guided his artistic journey since its inception.

With “La vie est un compte“, the young painter revisits existential questions and highlights how “money as value” has become an obsessive goal in our lives. He exposes how financial concerns permeate everything from birth to death and how social success is often regarded as the ultimate criteria for happiness, at the cost of genuine humanity.

However, in this series, Famakan Magassa initiates a profound shift in the perception of his characters and the situations he depicts, demonstrating remarkable technical and stylistic mastery. While his previous works emphasized the absurdity of our world, criticizing the excesses of the powerful, the established order, and societal drift, the artist has now chosen a different yet equally impactful and more subtle approach.

Nicknamed “The Sage” in Bamako, he has not lost his pictorial flair. What might have seemed more provocative in his earlier series is now more subdued, requiring the audience to closely examine and analyze the artist’s intent. Famakan Magassa demonstrates maturity without forsaking his creative boldness. His work now feels more introspective, as if some of his characters are caught in a form of self-reflection.

Intimacy, emotion, and even sentiment now take center stage, revealing the complexities of the human soul. The dominance of blue in the backgrounds and in the design of the characters signifies a familiar, universal color that everyone can relate to.

From this foundation, Magassa unfolds the narrative of life—its joys, happy moments, painful episodes, major milestones, family bonds, pretenses, uncertainties, and the elements that lead to success.

These “accounts” are nothing more than the metronome of our existence. From the moment we are born, the countdown—the hourglass that marks our journey to our final breath—is set in motion, punctuating everything that shapes our personality and learning experiences. Yet within these stories also lie debts to be settled and bank accounts to manage, both of which influence the way we live our lives.

Solo Show of Famakan Magassa

From May 15th to June 14th, 2025

99 Rue du Temple
75003 Paris, France
06 34 29 40 82 galeriesabinebayasli.com

The gallery

After several decades in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, the Detais gallery became the Galerie Sabine Bayasli and moved in the fall of 2019 to the Marais, in Paris.

Now located at 99 rue du Temple, Galerie Sabine Bayasli begins the 2020s with new collaborations, French and international (Poland, Germany, Switzerland, Canada, Italy, Japan, etc.), betting on emerging artists as well as its historical artists . We present exhibitions of figurative works of different techniques, paintings, drawings, marble sculptures, ceramic sculptures…

After the Liberation, the Levins reopened the family gallery. Georges Detais married Claude Levin's daughter, and in 1958, he officially took over the management of the gallery.

Until then specialized in 17th and 18th century painting, the gallery would become, under the leadership of Georges Detais, the sounding board for a new generation of artists.

In 1959, a young Spaniard presented himself at the gallery, a canvas under his arm: Eduardo Arroyo thus made his entry into the Parisian artistic world. He had his first exhibition at the gallery in 1961, where he was closely followed by Louis Quilici, Gilles Aillaud, Henri Cueco, Bernard Rancillac… The Detais Gallery will now be associated with a new movement: Narrative Figuration.

In the intellectual and artistic effervescence of Paris in the 1960s, the gallery supported a new scene which quickly embraced a career abroad, nourished by the contributions of Peter Klasen, Errò, Valerio Adami and Hervé Télémaque and the protest spirit of Gérard Fromanger, Jacques Monory, Ivan Messac or Gérard Schlosser.

From the beginning of the 1970s, the gallery placed emphasis on the international development of its artists and supported them during exhibitions in Madrid, Amsterdam, Montreal, Zurich, etc.

In the 2000s, Sabine Bayasli joined Georges Detais. Trained in the profession, the ex-bookseller will take up the torch and the spiritual heritage of her mentor. She continued and developed the gallery's activity, still dedicated to figuration, and began a turning point in 2011 before opening a new space at 39 rue Notre Dame de Lorette in 2017.

With Sabine Bayasli at the helm, La Galerie Detais is undertaking new collaborations and formalizing a program oriented towards today's figurative painting, both French and international. Freed from the old battles between Figuratives and Abstracts, the new generation shows itself alongside its predecessors, both in the gallery and in the fairs in which it participates, in Beirut, Leipzig or even in Korea.

Gallery artists

Clara Bryon, Magali Cazo, Jérome Combe, Julien Delagrange, Jiri Hauschka, Lanne Hood-Hazelgrove, Lena Keller, Magdalena Lamri, Renske Linders, Famakan Magassa, Karolina Orzelek, Aurélie Quentin, Clément Reinaud, Fabio Rieti, Johann Rivat, Andreas Senoner, Nazar Strelyaev-Nazarko, Tschiegg

In the thematic « Africa's Art Scene »

Jérôme Lagarrigue, Here I am, Huile sur toile, 65 x 65 cm, Courtesy Galerie Olivier Waltman.

Galerie Olivier Waltman

Ange-Arthur Koua, Jérôme Lagarrigue, Gastineau Massamba

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"Le rythme. Choc vibratoire de l'être"

Ahmed Legs, framed photography by ©️Hassan Hajjaj, 2022_1443. Courtesy of Ahmed, Hassan Hajjaj Studio & 193 Gallery

193 Gallery

Hassan Hajjaj 1961, Morocco

"Legs"

Stéphané Edith Conradie, Klinkende Simbaal II, 2025, Assemblage d’éléments divers, Courtesy Ceysson & Bénétière

Ceysson & Bénétière

Stephané Edith Conradie 1990, Namibia

In the thematic « Contemporary Art »

Femme Jibóia, Kássia Borges Mytara, photo Sami Korhonen @ricardofernandesgallery

Ricardo Fernandes

Kássia Borges Mytara 1962, Brazil

"'Femme Jibóia"

Galerie Nathalie Obadia

Fabrice Hyber 1961, France

"Apocalyipstick"

Javier Ruiz Pérez, Girasoles, Oil on canvas, 50 x 40 cm, 2025, Unique

Galerie Droste

Javier Ruiz Pérez 1989, Spain

"QUISE SER UN ELEFANTE ASUSTADO"

"I Wanted to Be a Scared Elephant"

In the thematic « Emerging Art »

La Galerie Rouge

Clarissa Bonet 1986, United States

"Clarissa Bonet, City Space"

Javier Ruiz Pérez, Girasoles, Oil on canvas, 50 x 40 cm, 2025, Unique

Galerie Droste

Javier Ruiz Pérez 1989, Spain

"QUISE SER UN ELEFANTE ASUSTADO"

"I Wanted to Be a Scared Elephant"

Sophia Fassi, La sieste I, 2024, huile sur toile, 114 x 146 cm, ©Galerie Berthet-Aittouares

Berthet-Aittouarès

Eve Aschheim, Claude Buraglio, Marie-Claude Bugeaud, Sophia Fassi, Anne Ferrer, Liliane Klapisch, Vera Molnar, Nil Yalter.

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"8 femmes"

In the thematic « Painting »

GaHee Park, Incarnation, 2025, Oil on linen, 172.7 x 182.9 cm, Photo: Paul Litherland, Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin

Perrotin

GaHee Park 1985, South Korea

"Not Quite Tomorrow"

Titina Maselli, Calciatori e città, 1973, Acrylic on canvas

Galerie Raphaël Durazzo

Titina Maselli 1924 — 2005, Italy

"Panta Rhei – Everything flows"

Valentin Rilliet, Untitled, 2025, oil and sand on linen, 130 x 90 cm (51 ⅛ x 35 ⅜ in.). Courtesy de l’artiste et de la Galerie Peter Kilchmann Zurich/Paris

Galerie Peter Kilchmann

Valentin Rilliet 1996, Switzerland / China

"The Dream Synopsis"

In the tour « Marais »

© Sarah Crowner, courtesy the artist and Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris | London | Marfa. Photo: Thomas Lannes

Galerie Max Hetzler

Sarah Crowner 1974, United States

"Tableaux en Laine, Pierres en Bronze"

Margaret Lansink, Sentient, 2019 ©Margaret Lansink

Galerie XII

Margaret Lansink 1961, Netherlands

"AWAKE"

Jérôme Lagarrigue, Here I am, Huile sur toile, 65 x 65 cm, Courtesy Galerie Olivier Waltman.

Galerie Olivier Waltman

Ange-Arthur Koua, Jérôme Lagarrigue, Gastineau Massamba

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"Le rythme. Choc vibratoire de l'être"

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